Wine Glass Drawing

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A Great Gift - Fake Wine Glasses
By Sarah Sandori - Ezinearticles

If you're looking for a great gift for a wine lover, may I suggest fake drinking glasses? When I say "fake," I'm referring to the material from which they are made. These are real glasses in the sense that you can pour wine into them and drink from them, but they are not made of glass. The magic word is "polycarbonate."

Polycarbonate is a type of plastic -- one of the most amazing ever invented. It's incredibly tough and shatter-resistant, and for that reason (among others) is used in eyeglasses, sunglasses, greenhouse windows, car headlights, CDs and DVDs, and cell-phone casings, to name just a few applications.

Nowadays you can also buy a huge variety of dining ware made from polycarbonate, including wine glasses, which is what we're interested in here.

The main advantage of polycarbonate wine glasses is their durability, which is in sharp contrast to the fragility of typical crystal stemware. If you serve wine at your table, you know how easy it is to break stemware, whether in the dishwasher or simply from normal handling. But even if you try to break them, polycarbonate glasses will last forever.

The main disadvantage of polycarbonate glasses is their weight. Most of them are too light!

Light weight is an advantage in eyeglass lenses and cell phones, but in a wine glass it just doesn't feel right. Part of the enjoyment of wine comes from the heft of the glass itself -- we don't want to feel that we are sipping our favorite vintage from some cheap, throwaway cup.

The solution? Make sure you look for double weight polycarbonate wine glasses. These are made specifically to replicate both the look and feel of good crystal stemware. Many people cannot tell the difference between them, in fact.

Double weight polycarbonate wine glasses are not especially cheap, but as a special gift -- to a friend, loved one or even yourself -- they can't be beat.

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